Number 28

In Loto Cash under the 5/35 + 1/10 · Apr 2022 – Sep 2025 rules — 524 draws, 5 from 1–35 (an earlier era).

77times drawn · chance expected 75 +0.27σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

33longest completed wait · 42% chance of one at least that long

28 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 77 times in 524 draws against 74.9 expected, +0.27σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 28, draw by draw

Drawn 77 times in 524 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 33 · waiting 2 draws now

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 28 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.1
2nd smallest2 · chance 1.6
3rd smallest12 · chance 12.2
4th smallest26 · chance 34.0
5th smallest37 · chance 29.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 18 21 9 22 5

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 34 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 28 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 35. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 28 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-09-22	4	4th	13 20 23 28 33
2025-09-12	12	5th	1 10 15 22 28
2025-08-15	3	5th	6 9 21 25 28
2025-08-08	11	5th	4 6

What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. A number’s history is a record of a fair machine’s past, and the machine keeps none of it: 28 is drawn with probability 5/35 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-10-11	7	2nd	14 28 29 31 35
2024-09-25	8	5th	5 12 17 18 28
2024-09-06	1	4th	7 16 27 28 34
2024-09-04	3	3rd	15 26 28 29 31
2024-08-28	3	3rd	22 26 28 33 34
2024-08-21	6	3rd	2 15 28 30 33
2024-08-07	1	5th	3 6 8 18 28
2024-08-05	6	5th	2 9 22 25 28
2024-07-22	3	5th	9 15 22 26 28
2024-07-15	1	5th	4 5 17 22 28
2024-07-12	2	4th	1 9 10 28 30
2024-07-08	2	3rd	20 21 28 33 34
2024-07-03	13	2nd	9 28 31 33 34
2024-06-03	33	4th	6 7 17 28 33
2024-03-15	3	5th	15 18 19 21 28
2024-03-08	4	4th	10 15 27 28 34
2024-02-28	24	4th	2 7 20 28 29
2024-01-03	3	5th	4 6 7 21 28
2023-12-22	1	5th	14 18 20 22 28
2023-12-20	6	4th	6 13 19 28 29
2023-12-06	4	4th	5 9 10 28 35
2023-11-27	3	3rd	23 26 28 30 34
2023-11-20	5	4th	18 19 23 28 34
2023-11-08	9	5th	10 14 19 23 28
2023-10-18	12	4th	2 8 17 28 30
2023-09-20	7	4th	6 22 23 28 34
2023-09-04	5	5th	7 11 23 27 28
2023-08-23	16	5th	2 9 20 27 28
2023-07-17	6	4th	5 9 15 28 29
2023-07-03	12	4th	9 18 21 28 29
2023-06-05	5	4th	7 21 23 28 34
2023-05-24	14	4th	7 17 19 28 35
2023-04-21	15	5th	12 22 24 27 28
2023-03-15	8	5th	13 15 17 18 28
2023-02-24	8	5th	6 12 21 25 28
2023-02-06	14	5th	8 11 17 21 28
2022-12-30	5	3rd	13 27 28 29 31
2022-12-16	1	5th	5 15 23 26 28
2022-12-14	21	5th	8 11 16 27 28
2022-10-26	5	4th	16 21 26 28 35
2022-10-14	3	5th	12 15 20 25 28
2022-10-07	12	3rd	15 17 28 32 33
2022-09-09	5	4th	3 7 10 28 32
2022-08-29	2	5th	8 9 13 16 28
2022-08-24	3	4th	2 18 19 28 30
2022-08-17	4	5th	3 4 5 13 28
2022-08-08	3	5th	2 5 18 19 28
2022-08-01	4	5th	1 12 18 19 28
2022-07-22	8	5th	11 19 23 26 28
2022-07-01	5	5th	1 5 21 23 28
2022-06-20	7	5th	9 12 17 19 28
2022-06-03	16	5th	3 4 15 18 28
2022-04-27	—	4th	10 11 27 28 32